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Smallcentguy Pillar of the Community Canada 1984 Posts	Posted 03/25/2013 1:53 pm This is another loop closer on a string from many months back. I couldn't find the original string. SPP had made a reference to this coin once in the past. It is a bit of a mystery. It has perfect one cent dimensions. But it is short weight and XRF analysis showed it to be made of cupro nickel. There is no record of a cupro nickel 1942 pattern cent, but there were other wartime test coins. Also, and I am sure SPP can remind me, I believe that there may be a known example of another 1942 coin struck on an almost identical planchet. Another mystery is how this coin came to be so heavily circulated. I am guessing it was a pocket piece. This coin came from an old Ottawa family collection. The original collector had been long dead when I got it so there is no information available on how it was found. Edited by Smallcentguy 03/25/2013 2:13 pm Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 03/25/2013 4:22 pm This coin was tested by me, and featured as a 'Oops of the Month' column by Henry Nienhuis, CN journal, April 2010, p. 174-175. The colour contrast is not great in that hard holder - this thing looks just like a US nickel in colour. Here is one of my photos... There is a 5-cent, of the same date, struck on a planchet of the same size and composition... that will be published shortly, in the CN Journal. PS - smallcentguy, thanks to a frantic March, I am behind on my emails and mail. You will have (snail) mail shortly... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Edited by SPP-Ottawa 03/25/2013 4:23 pm Report this Post to the Staff
change4thebetter Valued Member Canada 286 Posts	Posted 03/25/2013 4:35 pm Nice Smallcentguy...SPP-Ottawa Just curious SPP...what is the composition of yours? Is there a story behind that one? Would have been interesting to hear the story behind Smallcentguy's coin from the owner. Nice...glad you posted these. Report this Post to the Staff
Smallcentguy Pillar of the Community Canada 1984 Posts	Posted 03/25/2013 4:39 pm The story from the owner will never be known....the original owner died in 1967 and the owner's heir died in 2008. Report this Post to the Staff
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